Ecuador, February 15, 2018 -- Last Monday
(Feb. 12) I flew to Mexico to participate as a speaker at
Anarchapulco 2018, where
I was invited to speak. The subject of my presentation was my newest book,
The Joys of Psychopathocracy.
(See speaker's list;
also see my flight itinerary and hotel reservation and
Mexico customs declaration form,
where I made it clear that I was entering Mexico to participate as a speaker at
the conference.)As I went through immigration in Mexico City, where
I would connect with my flight to Acapulco, I was pulled off the line.
I was then taken to a small room where it was made clear that I would not be allowed to
enter Mexico because of "asuntos legales pendientes" (pending legal issues) in the
United States. Shortly thereafter, I was presented with a large stack of legal documents,
and told that I had to sign everywhere on the forms where a signature was solicited.
I was not allowed to read the documents. I was not allowed to possess any copies of these documents.
This was made clear to me, as I speak sufficiently good Spanish to have determined this.
So even now, I have no earthly idea what it is that I signed. It was never intended that I know.I spent the next 12 hours in a detention cell until I was allowed to
board a flight back to Ecuador, which left Mexico City at 1:20 a.m. I arrived back
in Quito at 6:22 a.m., local time, one hour ahead of Mexico City time.
As I write this, my luggage is sitting in Acapulco, so
I had to file a claim).Upon arriving in Quito, the first thing
that immigration asked me was, "What happened in Mexico?" I was detained for
four hours while Ecuadorean officials looked into the matter. In fact, I was still
in immigration talking to police officials long after all other passengers had
long since departed. This is what the officials I spoke with
shared with me: the reason I have travelled by air within Ecuador for years without
a problem is because the Interpol
matter I detail exhaustively in Meditopia had long since been buried as adjudicated. However, just
prior to my flying to Mexico, my old information was reinserted, as if
it was a new Interpol filing. There are no "pending" legal issues.
What was not a problem before was now coming onscreen,
which meant that this was a targeted hit by someone in Washington.I am assuming that either someone didn't want me to
speak in Mexico, or someone is enjoying messing with my life, as they did in 2009, or both.